The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-10


J ton with a bullet in his abdomen
J Richardson had been in Eau Clair
since Tuesday and was to leave thi
morning. About 6 O'Clock last evening
: the men were sitting in the Office of tn
hotel conversing amicably. Richard
son went out in the corridor and in
few minutes some one called Hanson
J and he also went out, but he had hardl..
entered the corridor when SeYera
shots were fired. Hanson staggered
back into the Office exclaiming: I'm
shot, and fell into the arms of hi
brother. Several guests rusheC
! into the corridor and found
Richardson lying on the floor, with {
bullet hole in the back OF his head and
one in the left breast. He remained
unconscious until about IL O'Clock
when he died. Hanson was found tC
be shot in the abdomen and although
able to talk would make no statement
about the shooting. No one saw the
affair. The cause was jealousy. Rich
ardsOn was formerly steward at the
Galloway house, but was divorced from
his wife and left the city, while Han
son married his (Richardson's wife.
The physicians say that Hanson can
not recover.
A MURDERER's WORK.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. AT 10
| C1OCh
ner, mother of Mrs. Charles B. Brown
field, called at the residence of her
daughter. AS she entered the sight
that met her eyes was horrible. In the
middle of the bedroom the body of
Charles BroWnfeld, her daughters
husband; was suspended by a strap
attached to the mantel, at the suicides
back and on the bed in dark corner
reposed the body of VIM. +. Bruner,
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another room were the forms of his
wife and nine-year old child. Their
heads were almost severed from their
bodies. On the bureau letter was
found saying: KILLED wife and baby
because 1 did not want them left PEN
niless in the world; the cause for being
tired of life was gambling. Killed w.
F. Bruner because 1 didn't think he
was fit to live." Charles B. BroWnfield
was about 80 years of age; he was a
mechanic and worked in the shops Of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad in
this city.
TUCK AGEE HANGED.
LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. 4.-Tuck
Agee was hanged in the Enclosure of
the Lexington jail at II O'Clock to-day.
In September. 1885, Agee murdered
his brother-in-law, James Faulkner at
Codentown during quarrel about the
Agee in company with three cell mates
prayed and sang until midnight, when
he fell asleep. Awakening this
morning at seven o'clock he ate a good
breakfast and at half past eleven the
procession moved out to the scaffold,
a rude structure with an old fashioned
trap door. Agee declared in low
firm voice that he had killed Faulkner
in self defense and that his conscience
of In cIRFnag0 naTnnfnC
after the trap door fell, life was pro-
nounced extinct. This is the first
execution of a white man in central
Kentucky since the war.
ANOTHER BOMB THRowER.
PTTTsBURG, Nov. yesterday
Thomas Owens an unpretentiouS
carpenter at work on house at Home
stead, fell from the roof OF the buAd-
ing and broke his neck. Squire
O'Effner was deputiZed to hold an
inquest and to-day made a report of
eased, it appears came to this city
about one year ago, some two or three
days after the Haymarket riot at
Chicago. He at once secured work at
Homestead with j. b. Mullett
and for the past year has been
working steadily alongside OF
man named Pheiffer also carpenter
One day an officer came to Homestead
in search of man on a charge OF
desertion. Seeing Owens and not
knowing what his man looked like, the
officer asked Mr.. Mullett who Owens
was, and was told, whereupon he went
away. Owens went to Mr.. Mullett at
once wanted what pay was due him
and expressing a desire to get
away from Homestead as soon
as possible, but when assured
I,nN l,n ~ hn
wanted, he went to work again, SEEM
ingly contented. This conduct inter-
ested Mr.. Pfeiter, who was rooming as
Well as working IN his company, and
at the first opportunity he began sys
tematic inquiry of Owens as to his
cause of alarm. Pfeiffer yesterday swore
before Squire Oeffner in the course of
the inquest. that Owens said: Il am
very sorry for those anarchists in Chi
cagO, who are now in Jail, charged with
throwing bombs at the Haymarket
riot. There are others outside who
are more to blame than they. l was
at the Haymarket riot, and am an an
archist, and say that threw a bomb
in that riot" Squire Oeffner swore
him, and although it had nothing to
do with the cause of Owens death,
yet, under oath, he told the story.
SOLD HIS DAUGHTERS FOR WHISKY.
OTTAWA, Canada, Nov. 3.-While a
Victoria schooner was lying at the
wharf at Barclay Sound on the west
| coast of Vancouver island recently the
captain and crew saw two white girls
running toward the vessel, pursued by
a number of Indians. The girls
begged the captain to protect them
from their pursuers, but the captain
then surrendered them for fear of his
life. 1t has been learned from the
authorities of British Columbia
that the girls are daughters
of William Thompson, formerly of Vic
toria, who, with his wife and four
daughters, moved to San Juan, on the
west coast, three years ago and took up
his residence among the Indians. He
soon became dissipated. When he
could no longer obtain money or liquor,
he sold his eldest daughter to wealthy
Chinaman. His wife died of broken
heart. In one of his revelries at the
Indian camp he bartered two of his
daughters for few blankets, clothing
and whisky. Since their captivity the
girls have been subjected to the most
only years old, was sold to another
tribe of Indians.
A VICIOUS ASSAULT.
KANSAS CITY. Nov. AT Waldo
Park this morning Ed Corrigan, the
well known turf man. struck 7. j.
Master, Times reporter, in the face
and knocked him down, after which
he kicked him about the face and head
until the reporter was insensible.
Masters right jaw was broken, and his
face and head fearfully gashed and
bruised. He was removed to the hos
pital. In the account of a dog fight
printed in the Times a few days ago it
was stated the trainer of one of the
dogs bore resemblance to Pat CORR
gan, brother of Ed. This is supposed
| to be the cause of the attack. CORR
gan has not yet been arrested.
PAT FEATHERS HIS NEST.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 4.-The grand jury
of the criminal court this afternoon re-
turned twenty-eight bills of indict'
ment against Wharfmaster Pat H
Kammagher. Twenty-seven of the in
dictments charge embeZZlement, and
the other charges him with embeZzle-
ment and larceny. The amount of his
defalcation, as given in the indict-
ments. is placed at $4,000. The in